Member Profile

Robert J. Rietz, FCA, EA, MAAA, FSA, MSPA recently retired from being a Director in the Detroit office of Deloitte Consulting LLP, and led the Total Rewards practice in Deloitte’s North Central region. He was their Chief Pension Actuary from 2006 to 2009, and has over 30 years of experience in the employee benefits consulting arena. He was the General Director of Rewards for a large health insurance company for three years. Mr. Rietz is a member of the Actuarial Board for Counseling and Discipline, a former President of the Conference of Consulting Actuaries, a former Vice President of Professionalism for the American Academy of Actuaries, and was appointed by Governor John Engler to serve as the public representative on the board of the Michigan Public School Employees’ Retirement system, serving from 1995 to 2001. Mr. Rietz was awarded the John Hanson prize in 1998 for the best paper on employee benefits, and is an occasional contributor to Contingencies magazine, and has authored several editorials on social security for the Oakland Press. He is a frequent speaker at annual meetings of the Conference of Consulting Actuaries, the Society of Actuaries, and the Enrolled Actuaries meeting on topics such as professionalism, communications and accounting for pension and retiree medical plans. He is a member of the American Academy of Actuaries, a fellow of the Conference of Consulting Actuaries, a fellow of the Society of Actuaries, a member of the American Society of Pension Professionals & Actuaries and is an Enrolled Actuary. Mr. Rietz is a graduate of Michigan State University, with a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics.